Arkat wrote on May 5^th, 2015 at 6:06pm:




2400 Baud Modem? 

Oh no, I'm confusing that with what I used to log on to BBS's and play L.O.R.D. when I was 12. My sweet 386 with 2 megs of ram and 80 meg HD was boss.

DropBear wrote on May 5^th, 2015 at 7:03pm:


Yeah, for me it had been steadily getting better and then suddenly went to hell again, so I suspect a single set of changes. I think it was right around the time when they started catching people even when they weren't obviously exploiting, so probably some of their logging or spy code.

If that's the case, it makes the enforcement effort twice as effective - once because it catches some, and the second because it drives others away 

Who panel checks.  Gads.

Meat-Head wrote on May 4^th, 2015 at 6:25pm:


Seekers of Truth!

The Oracle comes to visit from his long quest in search of the mythical lucre to once again, bring you the Truth of all things.

Did you think his All Scrying Eye was not watching?  You are mistaken!  The Oracle maintains a watch on all things, even as he deals with the timber in his eye he got from helping someone with a splinter.

However, the Oracle did manage to to corrupt his data a while back, as mentioned while blending scrying sources.  Fortunately, it's a deterministic failure, which means it can be rolled back.  Unfortunately, the Oracle could teach a graduate class on how it's done and hasn't had that much time to roll it out.  And as the Oracle is already on the quest for the mystical lucre and to slay Mammon and take his place, well, not happening.

And yet here, when the Oracle checks in, he finds his people again crying for the Truth.  The Truth that is there (the truth is in there) but not currently available, and so like those wandering the desert, you have resorted to bad data and false gods.

Unlike the god of Israel, though, the Oracle applauds your self sufficiency and general get it done attitude. As such, the Oracle brings you DATA MANA!

While the data up to The Event is mangled and requires repair, the Oracle's All-Scrying eyes have continued all this time, with uncorrupted data.  So if the Traffic Report in question (hours/days/weeks/months/quaters/years) is less than the time since The Fail, actually, it's perfectly accurate.

However, normally the All Knowing Oracle cannot publish something that's less than perfectly accurate, right?

So .. hearing your pleas, the Oracle brings you .. the Oracle VAULT VERSION!  It's a combination of perfectly accurate, half-assed and incomplete.  Technically it should have soft-porn, bad language and violently opinionated content, but 3 out of 6 ain't bad.

You can access the Vault Special Report at:
http://www.ddoracle.com/vault/Traffic.html

This is a total, awful hack, but .. Vault.

Your Oracle will add a couple things worth mentioning:

1)  One day the Oracle went to check that traffic was all recording right and the traffic levels of ALL the servers were at Wayfinder's level.  Panic set in! A bug! The scrying eyes have a bug!

… it wasn't a bug.

2)  If you go to the main not-updated DDOracle.com, that data is a snapshot in time.  Comparing then and now is amusing.

3) Tomb of Horrors.  Remember to pick Tomb of Horrors!  It's a a D&D module about software development.

So... this data matches mine pretty well.


Thanks.

DropBear wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 12:08am:


Yes.

Meat-Head wrote on May 5^th, 2015 at 11:59pm:

More or less yes, same thing.  Though based on accounts instead of characters, based on the actual DDO login servers instead of reading the in-game social screen, and recorded hourly for the last 4+ years. SSDD

I'd be more interested in retention at this point.  Might be cool to match those data with the server switches...  we know there's a giant bump for any server that becomes the default, but how many of those people actually stick around?

I go back and forth on whether it's a good idea to have one server set for a while, or randomly alternate.  The former's nice because you get a big influx of noobs, so the LFMs at low levels light up, and there's an illusion of population.

The Oracle wrote on May 5^th, 2015 at 11:31pm:

awww yissss

DropBear wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 12:08am:


Yes. We have also received a few people from G-land.

All will come to Sarlona one day.

Guild              Members      Avg Renown
SAGE      34              979102.21
At that point we had 4 to 6 active accounts

So i take it that members is the number of toons.

AllBorkedup wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 8:40am:


It would be very unfair to say people are not doing raids on wayfinder. For example, I did heroic chrono for BB there only 1 month ago.

DropBear wrote on May 6^th, 2015 at 12:08am:



Sarlona lost the Default to Orien.
The Orienites all complained about Lag and got the Default moved again PDQ {18 days!} - This time to Cannith.
Cannith now has the Default and No more Lag than usual.

I am actually surprised at the surge in Orien's population this time round as last time it got the Default {from Cannith btw} it failed to catch Cannith at any point even though it held the Default that time for months!
After Orien lost the Default to Sarlona both Orien and Cannith fell away {Orien instantly back to 7th, Cannith slower but as you can see from the Oracle's latest graphs eventually to 7th after 6 months of Sarlona being the Default AND after Orien had got the Default back!

Rubbinns wrote on May 4^th, 2015 at 10:11pm:


I usually anon my boxes - I have up to 8, but too busy right now to log on that many much less play.